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[quote=Anonymous]Lots of experience working at camps.

I also find it weird that the director would just have her call you. At the camp I worked at, no parent calls were permitted in the first week because that was the period (PP was right about 3-5 days) when homesickness would flare and a call with parents will only make it worse. The director should have been calling your directly if they had concerns.

I would call the director and talk to them. Is your daughter having fun at all, or constantly upset? Has she been this way the whole time?

It would not rush to get her at this point, but have a long conversation about it over ice cream when she gets back, emphasizing that you didn’t come because you were absolutely confident that she could stick it out for one day and are really proud of her. Try to make it so she ends up on the other side feeling good about herself and what she accomplished by staying. Since she only has a day left, there’s not really time for her to go through the full typical camp cycle many kids experience (fun-homesick-fun) which is one reason longer camps can be better so somehow getting her to frame the whole thing as at least partially a positive experience, even if she never wants to go back, might take some work [/quote]

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